If you have not yet had an opportunity to hear John Baker, you will not want to miss this. MONTGOMERY COUNTY ARCHIVES to Host Workshop on AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY presented by author JOHN F. BAKER Award-winning author John F. Baker, Jr., will present a workshop on African American genealogy as told through his own genealogical research which produced his recently published book, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom. The workshop will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Montgomery County Civic Hall, located at 350 Pageant Lane, Clarksville. The workshop is free and open to the public. Please see below for reservation information. Baker discovered the story of his ancestors quite by accident when he saw a photograph of four former slaves, entitled "Black Tennesseans," in a seventh grade social studies book. Later he learned that two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. Baker has lived his entire life just a few miles from Wessyngton Plantation in a town populated by hundreds of descendants of its former slaves. For more than thirty years, he has been researching, conducting interviews, and collecting photographs and information about them and the hundreds of others enslaved on the plantation. Baker has written extensively on Wessyngton and the lives of African Americans there. The National Historical Home submission, Families and Cabins: Archaeological and Historical Investigations at Wessyngton Plantation included his paper, which earned him a national history award from the American Association for State and Local History. Those wishing to attend the workshop must contact Montgomery County Archives to reserve a seat as the number of attendees is limited. Reservations can be made via e-mail to mcarchives@montgomerycountytn.org<mailto:mcarchives@montgomerycountytn.org> Patrons can also register by telephone by calling 931.553.5159. Parking is available at Veterans' Plaza.